Contributions to Baltic Journal of Law & Politics (BJLP) shall be articles of original research or analysis papers.

BJLP is a refereed journal. Submissions are subject to academic review. Every submitted manuscript receives at least two reviews.

Submissions shall be written in English.

Submissions can be made at any time.

The typical length of the article shall be from 5,000 to 12,000 words. Longer or shorter texts will be accepted only in very exceptional cases.

Contributors are asked to provide an A4 1.5 lines spaced version of their manuscript as an e-mail attachment, in Microsoft Office (.doc) or Open Office (.odt) format, to the e-mail addresses below. Non-standard fonts should be avoided – Verdana font is the preferred font of the journal. A margin on all sides of 2,5 cm should be applied for the entire document.

The title page shall contain (in the following order): (1) Title, (2) Author’s full name, details of scientific and pedagogical degrees, institutional affiliation, and contact information, including e-mail address, (3) Abstract in English (100-250 words), (4) List of keywords (4-7).

Contributors are requested to follow Humanities Style (advisably as regulated by The Chicago Manual of Style) for the formatting of references, with the following further instructions: (1) references to works cited shall be provided in documentary footnotes as well as in a bibliographical list provided at the end of the document; (2) documentary notes are to be listed as footnotes (not endnotes); (3) a bibliographical list shall be provided at the end of the manuscript, generally arranged in alphabetical order and called “Bibliography”.

Authors should consider that: “documentary notes and bibliographies are intended to provide much the same information – full bibliographic details – although in somewhat different form. The first time a work is cited in a note, the reference is usually complete, much as it would be in a bibliography. In subsequent citations, however, the information is curtailed, and a short form of reference is given (usually only author’s last name, a shortened version of the title, and a page reference, if applicable; sometimes only author’s last name and the page reference)” (The Chicago Manual of Style, 14th edition (Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1993), p. 528). Ibid should be used to refer to a single work cited in the note immediately preceding. Authors should avoid using op.cit. or loc.cit. in subsequent or shortened references in notes; instead they should use short title form (ibid., p. 580-583).

Authors should also consider that: “among the differences between citations in notes and bibliography entries, aside from the possibility of shortened forms in the notes, are the following: (1) In bibliography entries the names of authors are inverted, that is, last name is first, because the entries are arranged alphabetically by authors’ last names. In note citations, where alphabetical arrangement is not used, authors’ names are given in normal order. (2) In bibliography entries the various components of information are separated by periods. In notes the separation is by commas, except for the publication facts, which are enclosed in parentheses, with no preceding punctuation but with a comma separating the closing parenthesis from the page or volume number” (ibid., p. 528).

Examples of the main types of references are provided below:

Book
In note: Carl Schmitt, Legality and Legitimacy, trans., ed. Jeffrey Seitzer (Durham & London: Duke University Press, 2004), p. 28.
In bibliography: Schmitt, Carl. Legality and Legitimacy. Translated and edited by Jeffrey Seitzer. Durham & London: Duke University Press, 2004.

Article in a book/compendium
In note: Richard Gowan, “The European Security Strategy’s Global Objective: Effective Multilateralism”: 42; in: Sven Biscop and Jan J. Anderson, eds., The EU and the European Security Strategy (London and New York: Routledge, 2008).
In bibliography: Gowan, Richard. “The European Security Strategy’s Global Objective: Effective Multilateralism.” 42-62. In: Sven Biscop and Jan J. Anderson, eds. The EU and the European Security Strategy. London and New York: Routledge, 2008.

Article in a journal
In note: Lon L. Fuller, “Positivism and Fidelity to Law – A Reply to Professor Hart,” Harvard Law Review 71 (1958): 632.
In bibliography: Fuller, Lon L. “Positivism and Fidelity to Law – A Reply to Professor Hart.” Harvard Law Review 71 (1958): 630-672.

Article in a journal with DOI
In note: Geoffrey Pridham and Evald Mikkel, “Clinching the ‘Return to Europe’: The Referendums on EU Accession in Estonia and Latvia,” West European Politics Vol. 27, No. 4 (September 2004): 745.
In bibliography: Pridham, Geoffrey, and Evald Mikkel. “Clinching the ‘Return to Europe’: The Referendums on EU Accession in Estonia and Latvia.” West European Politics Vol. 27, No. 4 (September 2004): 716-748.
DOI: 10.1080/0140238042000249958.

Internet source
In note: UNDP, “Civil Service Training in the Context of Public Administration Reform. A Comparative Study of Selected Countries form Central and Eastern Europe, and the former Soviet Union (1989 to 2003),” (May 2003) // http://unpan1.un.org/intradoc/groups/public/documents/UNTC/UNPAN017191.pdf (accessed November 11, 2008).
In bibliography: UNDP. “Civil Service Training in the Context of Public Administration Reform. A Comparative Study of Selected Countries form Central and Eastern Europe, and the former Soviet Union (1989 to 2003).” (May 2003) // http://unpan1.un.org/intradoc/groups/public/documents/UNTC/UNPAN017191.pdf (accessed November 11, 2008).

Legislative act
In note: Law on Higher Education of the Republic of Lithuania, Official Gazette (2000, no. 27-715), art. 14, sec. 3.
In bibliography: Law on Higher Education of the Republic of Lithuania. Official Gazette, 2000, no. 27-715.

Case
In note: State v A.K., Supreme Court of the Republic of Lithuania (1995, no. 2K-257).
In bibliography: State v A.K. Supreme Court of the Republic of Lithuania, 1995, no. 2K-257.

Authors should avoid citing an Internet source if a legislative act or a case is available in an official print source. Examples of the reference to a legislative act and a case serve only as the recommendation in relationship to other countries apart from Lithuania; authors should as much as possible abide by the rules of the corresponding country or organization in relation to the citation of these sources, however, country or organization should be evident from the reference; if that is not the case, authors should provide additional information indicating the country or organization in parentheses at the end of the reference (for example: Polish case, Latvian statute, the UN resolution, etc.).

The bibliographical list may be broken into sections. It is advisable to make such a division if the paper includes considerable legal citation (references to legislative acts, statutes, cases, etc.); in this case that section of bibliographical list should be called “Legal references”.

It is strongly advisable to provide English translations of the titles of books, articles, legal documents or other sources, if they are in a language other than English. The translations should be provided in brackets immediately following the title. For example: Carl Schmitt, Politische Theologie. Vier Kapitel zur Lehre von der Souveranität [Political Theology. Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty], Siebente Auflage (Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 1996).

Authors are responsible for observing the laws of copyright when quoting or reproducing any and all borrowed material.

Unless otherwise specified, copyright is shared between contributor and BJLP.

E-mail submission and contact BJLP at: bjlp@fc.vdu.lt.